Nature - Romance languages compared to Latin
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- Comparison of romance languages with Latin through vocabulary of nature.
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Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian and Portuguese compared with Latin to see which one is the most similar to Latin.
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"Munte" is the Romanian word for mountain. "Montan" is just mountain related.
Montan could be translated as mountanous
@@boldisordorin9010 montan is likely a late borrowing - munte, muntos, de munte, muntenesc seems to be the inheruted words.
@@zarzavattzarzavatt9309 Les mots roumains muntean, muntos, Muntenia sont des mots formés dans la langue roumaine, par la dérivation, en partant du nom munte qui est hérité du Latin mons, montis, en accusatif montem. Muntenesc est un dérivé du mot Muntenia.
@@1LucianG yes, these are the inherited words, unlike "montan"
@@zarzavattzarzavatt9309 Le mot roumain montan est un néologisme, du latin montanus. Quant au mot munte, celui-ci est hérité du Latin, mons, montis, en accusatif: montem.
Me an native speaker italian🇮🇹 it's very easy for me to understand and learn spanish, catalan, romanian, french and portuguese ... we are cousins🇮🇹🇪🇦🇷🇴🇲🇫🇵🇹 i love u cousins from an italian guy
Love from Brasil
@@feedmeifyoudare4783 muchas gracias hermano... aquí en Italia son las 16:00
Un saludo y que te vaya muy bien en todo.
We are a BIG family! ♥️
@@martinaavalos6825 Tienes razón♥️🥺
We (the Romanians) also have "fluviu", but it is used to describe a higher-level river . We use "rau" for low-level rivers(e.g.: Fluviul Dunarea=The Danube River but "Raul Olt=The Olt River")
Also, fun fact: we have the word "spelunca"but use it to describe a low class bar (a bodega)
Hi! In portuguese we have the word espelunca, that means a low space,as you sayed ,a bar ,house, etc.
In portuguese there is also a similar case for the latin "fluvius", we have the term "fluvial" to express something that comes from river, identical to english.
"Erosão fluvial" = fluvial erosion
Spelunca comes from German, "Spelunke". "Fluviu" is a newer borrowing and not directly inherited from Latin.
That is exactly what i wanted to say
In Portuguese, "espelunca" does exist but means any disorderly place, not a cave.
It is fantastic how Romanian derivated from Latin, but following another path, as in the word "earth" that, in Romanian, came from "pavimentum" (which also exists in my mother language, Portuguese, pavimento, but with a different meaning). It was like "Nah, I won't follow you, guys. I'll go by this path, it's different, but it leads me there too".
We have "pamant" from "pavimentum" because after the Romans withdrew their army and administration from Dacia Romana, the colonists had to abandon the cities and live in villages or other more protected places because cities attracted attacks of various migratory peoples. Those "city boys" were used with "pavimentum" ("a floor composed of small stones beaten down") and continued to use this word in place of "terra", which is interesting in my opinion.
Exactly. There are so many examples in Romanian of this.
Spanish: Cosa
Italian: Cosa
Portuguese: Coisa
French: Chose
Romanian: Lucru
(from Latin “lucrum” which meant “profit”)
Also, I'd like to add that "terra" in Romanian became "țară" which means "country".
@@daciaromana2396 Lucrum also means working? (in latin, I mean; I might be mistaken); As in "lucrative"
@@georgianapopescu1333 Lucrum only meant profit. In English the word “lucrative” means “profitable”, it doesn't mean “workable” like you might be inclined to think. In eastern Romance the Latin word lucrum came to mean other things like “work”, because when you work you make a profit.
It is beautiful how Romanian kept a lot of words from its mother language,Latin even thought it was exposed to years of Slavic admixture and isolation from other romance languages.
Glad to see someone of a culture))
it had a lot of latin derived words reintroduced into its lexicon from french, when romanian was established as an official language and its first grammar and dictionaries were redacted.
@@rrs_13 Only scientific and political words, the basic words are from Latin.
@@TarebossT Nu. Dar nu voi argumenta
@@rrs_13 what are you on?
This was a great video.
As a Spanish speaker I feel Spanish is closest to Italian and Portuguese, but find Romanian to be the most interesting of them all the Romance languages and is the one I want to learn eventually 😄.
A big hug to all my Latin brothers and sisters ❤.
Thank you for your words ;)
@Cobra Kai I will help you to learn Romanian, and you will teach me spanish, por favor :)). ¿Que dices?
@@constantinrobert-cosmin3900 Yo diría que es mas facil para un Rumano aprender Español que al revez. 😂
@@CobraKaiNoMercy entiendo, commo tu quieres. Quiero apprender eslañol de un nativo. Puedes ayudarme?
@@constantinrobert-cosmin3900 Si, yo puedo si lo deseas.
Um salve a comunidade de linguas latinas 🇷🇴🇧🇷🇨🇵🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇹
Comment allez-vous le lusophone ?
Moi je vais bien.
@@aboudoutogola7683 BONJOUR pour les Français 👍
Salve,cugino!
Moi je suis francophone, j'ai répondu la salutations de celui qui a parlé portugais...
Sou brasileira. Salve!
You can also use monte in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian and mont in French. Munte is the right word in Romanian, because montan is an adjetive.
Latin has monte as well, it’s the ablative version of mons
In Romanian mountains is munte. Montan means mountains related.
I read this right as the Mountain section came up 😄.
Also forestier means forest related
Portuguese
Monte, morro, colina (small montains, hills), montanha (mountain)
Montanhoso - mountains related
in italian monte is mountain
@@mr_max_carneiro7090 um monte não é uma montanha.
The latin languages are beautiful❤🇨🇵🇮🇹🇷🇴🇵🇹🇪🇸
As an Papiamento speaker 🇦🇼🇨🇼🇧🇶 our langauge is highly influenced with Spanish, French and Portuguese so i always find our language to be the grand child of latin cause theirs soo much words i can understand. I love latin soo much. 🇦🇼🇨🇼🇧🇶🇧🇷🇵🇹🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇷🇴
Então você é também um filho de Roma amigo
There's a Brazilian comedian who speaks Papiamento
Dónde hablan esa lengua ?
@@palaciosmtyAruba
In portuguese we say " espelunca " in a pejorative way to describe a place in bad conditions. Never thought that word came from latin " spelunca " that means literally cave. Now it really makes sense 😄
nossa q lindo vc
Nossa que lindo vc
Pensei a mesma coisa!
@@LaryssaNoleto Que ele é lindo?
Speluncă / Bodegă in Romanian means a dirty place where poor peoples have waisted with alcohol
I love that some of the words come form ancient Greek 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇸🇨🇵🇮🇹🇹🇩🇵🇹
Dont know about other languages but portuguese has Around Over 500 words of Greek origin
Romanian has around 5250 greek words
@@MrBabyBlue1993 IT HAS MUCH MORE BELIEVE ME ESPECIALLY THE ONES REFFERING TO SCIENCE ( I FORGOT TO SET CAPS LOCK OFF , AND IM TOO BORED TO REWRITE THE COMMENT )
Yep
Greek legends state that Uranus had a brother named Pontus (Greeks called the Black Sea Pontus Euxinus - the hospitable sea), who’s wife was a nimphe called Tomyris (see the Scythian queen Tomyris). Together they gave birth to most sea creatures…… Tomis (nowadays Constanta) was one of the first Greek colonies on these parts. We lived together more than we can imagine people and that togetherness is larger than we can imagine on this planet.
As a native french speaker! I can say Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are very easy for us to learn. Romanian is kinda harder due to the slavic influence imo.
Moi j'ai vu des francophones parlent d'autres langues latines mais très rarement ils parlent le roumain.
@@aboudoutogola7683 because they are so racists and arogants to learn a easy language like romanian
@@bogdanneagu8880 oui, bien sûr c'est ça d'une part.
Latin language originate from Dacia
@@GabsRecords no, it originated in Latium, in the heart of Italy
Funny thing happend to me in Greece!
I've entered a jewelery shop with my wife and the lady saluted us with "Bona sera" judging us by our looks .
I told her "we are not italians, we are romanians."
She was like "Ok then ! Bună seara!"
😂😂😂
😂 cool!
Omfg I thought I was the only one that gets Italians & Romanians mixed up!
dont say this to an italian they will hate you@@novemBURRbby
For « Aurora » in french we also have a common word : Aurore 😉
Etymology of the "strange" Romanian words:
Forest - Pădure - Derived from Latin "Padulem" (Swamp) ; Similar to Spanish "Bosque", Romanian also has the word "Boschet" which means "Bush".
Hill - Deal - Likely Pre-Latin Daco-Thracian origin from the root Proto-Indo-European word "dʰol-" ; Cognate with modern English "Dale" which means "Valley"
Cave - Peșteră - From Old-Slavonic "*peťera.", cognate with modern Bulgarian "пещера" (peštera)
Sunset -1 Apus - From the Romanain verb "Apune" (Setting) ultimately an archaism for "West", from Latin "apponere" (to bring together); Cognate with Occitan "ponent", also meaning "West". (UNRELATED to Greek "Apus")
-2 Asfințit - From Early Romanian "*asfinge", ultimately from Latin "affingere" (to fade away).
Sunrise - Răsărit - From the Romanian verb "Răsări", ultimately an archaism for "East", from Latin "re" (again) + salio (rise); Cognate with Italian "Risalire", meaning "to rise". The word "Răsare" also means "rises" in modern Romanian.
Mushroom - Ciupercă - From Old Slavonic " *pečura" ; cognate with modern Bulgarian "чепурка" (chepurka)
Grass - Iarbă - From Early Romanian "Earba", from Latin "herba".
The Latin word "Terra" evolved into Early Romanian "Țeară" and ultimately "Țară" which used to mean "Land" (as in a land inhabited by someone), nowadays simply meaning "country".
Terra simply refers to the planet itself and it is a neologism.
Romanian padure is cognate with French poule, meaning swamp, which was borowed in English for Football pool. In contrast, French forêt is short for Forum Silvaticus, total opposite of a swamp.
Thank you for clarifying, sometimes Romanian looks like the odd one out but it does it's own thing and of course is still a Latin derived language.
Saludos desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 .
Many Romanian intellectuals realized that Romanian is a Romance language in the 18th century. Then they began to write their language in Latin alphabet and borrow many French and Italian words while stopped using many Slavic words.
@@CobraKaiNoMercy en realidad de los principales idiomas romances el francés es el que tiene la pronunciación más extraña. Si no fuera porque tiene una ortografía muy conservadora, también nos parecería una lengua muy diferente a la nuestra.
@@juandiegovalverde1982 Wrong.
Romanian texts from the 1500s are perfectly understandable to modern day Romanians.
There was never any language restructuring in the 18th century aside form slow and steady standardization.
Romanian borrowed as many French words in that period as any other European language.
So basically Romanian has a lot of synonims, fortunately I speak spanish too and we also have tons of synonims.
Forest: pădure/codru/forestier
River: fluviu (big river), râu (medium-small river)
Hill: colină/deal
Cave: peșteră/grotă/cavernă
Desert: deșert/pustiu
Sunrise: răsărit/auroră/crepuscul (different phenomena)
Sunset: apus/asfințit
Mushroom: fungus/ciupercă/bureți
Prairie: pajiște/prat/fâneața
Agricultural prairie: câmp/livadă/izlauri
Tree: arbore/copac/pom
Exactly, we have Romance versions of some of the more used Slavic nouns, which is why it is easy for us to learn other Romance languages, but not as easy for you to learn Romanian (because in speech we use Slavic loanwords all the time and you have to know those words to understand spoken Romanian).
@@wyqtor I am fascinated by the amount of vocabulary it has, it is a very expressive language :)
"Forestier" vine din limba franceza "forestier/forestière". Dar în franceza e doar un adjectiv (substantivul e "forêt") nu-i la fel în limba româna? Si în franceza exista diferenta între fluviu (fleuve) si râu (rivière) dar putine limbe fac diferenta asta! În sfârsit, în franceza cuvântul "crépuscule" înseamna "apus/sfintit" (sunset), nu "aurora/rasarit", e tot contrariu!
Crepuscul in Spanish is Crepúsculo. So, there's another one similar!
in romanian "pustiu" doesnt mean desert, or atleast i dont use it thay way, it could be but it doesnt sound right :)
Native Portuguese🇵🇹 from Portugal love all my latin european brothers 🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸❤️🇨🇵❤️🇷🇴❤️🇮🇹
Sou brasileiro, porém devo admitir que o sotaque de Portugal é belíssimo. Abraços!
Amitiés de france 🇵🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇷🇴obrigado 👍
Yo también.Eu também. Moi aussi. Anch'io . Si eu. Me quoque.
Português nativo chamado Yhago e com o escudo do Flamengo no avatar. Brasileiro não cansa de passar vergonha.
@@danielg.1698 pior é o outro ali abaixando a calcinha de graça kkkkkkkk
I'm here as a Romanian but I have lived in Italy for my whole life. I love both countries and I feel as if I'm part of both.
Too bad Italians r racists.
Uguale per me
0:52 "Silva" É um sobrenome bem comum no Brasil, pois foi dado a milhares de escravos durante o período colonial, e também muitos portugueses que vieram para o Brasil em busca de uma vida nova adotaram o "Silva" para beneficiarem-se do anonimato que o sobrenome oferecia.
It's also used in relation to forestry: silvicultura, silvicultor, silvícula...
@@module79l28 These words (silvicultura etc.) are literary and scientific words copied letter by letter during the Renaissance. Compare "escutar" and "auscultar" both come from the Latin "auscultare" but the second one is a literary and scientific copy imported directly from Latin, also many other "duplicates or even triplets: "mágoa", "mancha" and "mácula" (from Latin "macǔla").
Bernardo Silva
In XVI Century Portuguese, Silva was still used with the "forest" meaning. Hence why da Silva came to be the most popular surname in Brazil (about 40 million Silvas in Brazil), as it was first used to refer to people that lived in the forests, outside towns and castles (i.e. a peasant). So, João da Silva means John from the countryside.
În România, there Is an organization called ROMSILVA and it occupies with forests
For Romanian -
1. We have Fluviu too, for large rivers: Dunarea e un fluviu.
2 For Tree: Arbore (latin arbor) /Copac (thracian)/Pom (from latin Pomus)
3 Padure (lat padule)/ Codru (lat quodrum). "Forestier" meaning is of the forest. We use silvic or silvan with the meaning of of the forest. ex. Domeniu silvic/forestier. Padure comes from latin also (Padulem), italian equivalent is Padule. Pădure is feminine substantive for forest, or a piece of tree land. Codru is masculine substantive for forest and means deep, old, dense forrest. Codru is more the place (forest) for outlaws like Robin Hood type. Codrii Cosminului is a famous battle place.
4. We have caverna/Grota/pestera and spelunca. Althrough we use to call any dubious darkened (and /or underground) bar a "o speluncă ordinară" (common cave).
5 For sunset. Apus (greek)/Asfințit (relatively recent, relig)/Înserare (latin) /Crepuscul (latin). PS. Uccidere is also ucide in romanian. Moldavians will say: Ucide becul (turn down the light).
6 Sunrise Răsărit (East) / Zori (Dawn) / Soare-răsare (Sunrise)/Auroră (Dawn)/Revărsatul zilei (Dawning). In romanian , white is Alb/Alba (masc/fem)
7 Rock is Piatră (latin)/Lespede (latin)Stâncă (dacian) /Stană (dacian). Stanca and Stana - female names. Stan /Stancu - male name. The name Stan is the equivalent of Peter. "Lespede" is more like a flat rock, Lespede (also used for tombstone - Lespede de mormînt)
8.Meadow is Pajiste (lat)/Luncă (slav) /Zăvoi (slav)
9 Burete (latin - boletus)/ Ciupercă (bulg) /Fungus (inv). Burete/bureți is most used. South/South east more used is ciupercă/ciuperci.
10 Terra - pamânt (lat pavimentum) / țărână (lat - terrina)/țară, țeară (lat. terra)
Meadow is ,pasune'
Andreea S
Mushroom is ,guba' in bulgarian.
Why do you give up si easy?
Compare
Perched over ( something that sits on top of something or at the edge of it, and that resembles the shape of mushroom.
" Moshroom smoke clouds were hanging over the town"
Resurrection.
@@nestingherit7012 avem ghebe ,😂
@@xiaopingzdrang834
Poate in sud, ghebe'
Dar it dau alt exemplu ca , nisip'( piasuk' in Bg.) sau ,risipa' nu sunt slave.
Compara in English
To sip ( a bea incet' ceva)
Din Proto indoeuropean seyb'( to lick out,to pour out/ prelinge)
@@nestingherit7012 nu știu originea, dar în nord avem ghebe, nu știu dacă au același nume in sud 🤣
5:05 In Romanian we also use the word "Litoral" to mean beach
In French too, "plage" is more the sand, and littoral is all of the border between land and sea.
Litoral is used as a geografical definition of the land touching the sea , it's synonym can be "țărm". But "plaja" is the place where people are usually hanging out, or a low valley touching the sea.
LATIN EUROPE 🇮🇹🇸🇲🇻🇦🇲🇫🇪🇦🇵🇹🇹🇩 the best Europe, and LATIN AMERICA
🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇨🇷
🇪🇨 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷
🇵🇾 🇸🇻 🇺🇾 🇻🇪 🇧🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹
The best America.
(America is a continent not a country).
Most people don't even know about Latin Europe gave birth to Latin America 😏
>he writes in English.
America is one of the shortened forms of United States of America.
Latín africa 🇲🇿🇦🇴🇨🇻🇬🇶🇬🇼🇸🇹
Latín asia 🇹🇱🇲🇴 and Goa and parts from 🇮🇳
Mulțumesc mult și sunt din RP Moldova😒
Latin, the language of ancient Rome, is the mother of Romance languages, which are an evolved Latin, they are the most beautiful languages in the world, and heirs to the legacy of ancient Rome.
🦅
LATIN 🌿SPQR🌿
LEGIO AETERNA VICTRIX
ITALIANO 🇮🇹
Legione della vittoria eterna.
ESPAÑOL 🇪🇦
Legión de la victoria eterna.
PORTUGUÊS 🇵🇹
Legião da vitória eterna.
FRANÇAIS 🇲🇫
Légion de la victoire éternelle.
ROMÂNĂ 🇷🇴
Legiunea victoriei eterne.
I think that the mother of Romance is Indoeuropean, as well for Germaninc, indoiranian and European
@@aaron_rds1341 no
@@aaron_rds1341 No The indo European "language" is supposedly the mother of latin and other old European languages and latin is the parent of the romance languages
@Weasel How do you know me? Xd
@@friedensprachschuler542 say thank you to the algorithm
In Romanian, “pom” is also used for fruit bearing trees and in some dialects it is the main word people use to mean “tree”.
Nu. Pom îi pom. Copac . Arbore. Pom fructifer . Din câte stiu eu
@@mihaiflorinmuntean7482 nu, pomul se referă de obicei la un copac fructifer. Definiția oficială din dex este ”nume generic pentru arbori care produc fructe comestibile”. It comes from Latin ”pomus”, meaning ”fruit” or ”fruit tree”. I assume that ”poamă” in Romanian meaning ”fruit” and ”pomme” in French meaning ”apple” are also related.
@@nvmindem In Moldova, la tara, se mai spune la struguri, "poamă".
@@nvmindem in Ardeal pom sa folosește la orice tip de copac.
@@dacian_1346 știu, de-asta am spus "de obicei", nu "mereu". Uneori exprimarea regională se abate de la regulile oficiale ale limbii literare. (Deși atât timp cât oamenii dintr-o anumită comunitate se pun de acord pentru sensul unui cuvânt, atunci ar trebui considerat corect în interiorul acelei comunități).
I feel do inclined to visit and explore Romania! Greetings from Brazil.
Do it if you can, it is wonderful
@@lucianboar3489 Where are you from?
You should do it! :)
@@andreivanpopa I will next year! I am intrigued by the same language origins as portuguese. Where are you from?
@@mdjunior2604 I'm from Bucharest. And you?
As a Spanish speaker learning both Italian and Latin, this is an incredibly well made video!
Gratias.
I love that the Irish “lough” or Scot’s Gaelic “loch” also comes from the Latin “lacus”.
I’m a native English-speaker, but I also speak fluent French, German, Spanish and Italian, so I found this video fascinating. It makes me want to go back and study Latin, which I did study for six years in secondary school.
Gratias maximas. 👏🏼
According to the Etymological Dictionary of Proto Celtic, it doesn't, as it comes from Proto Celtic. Both Proto Celtic and Latin roots are cognates, coming from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
Yeah english has a large amount of latin borrowed words
@@fgwp Interestingly, the Old English word "lacu", meaning "lake", also looks like it should be related to "loch" and "lacus", but it isn't. It actually descends from a completely unrelated Proto-Indo-European root.
Yo es que viendo este video, me doy cuenta de que el ingles también es una lengua romance o latina. Por mucho que se empeñen en decir que no.
4:25 In French, we also have the verb "occire", which means "to kill". It's pretty old-fashioned/literary by now, though.
Aside from "coucher du soleil", we also have "crépuscule" (from "crepusculum"), which I'm pretty sure also exists in other Romance languages.
I also like how we can see that a lot of English words are also of Romance origin, usually through Old Norman French (river, forest, lake, nature, mountain, valley, cave, desert, herb).
Not "island", btw, this is a Germanic word, and the introduction of an "s" in writing was done later, and it was because of "isle"' which does come from Old French.
Also, cognate between "hill" and "collis", I believe. I smell Grimm's law here.
The history of "bosc/bosco/bosque" is a fascinating one, because it comes from an Old Frankish word ("*busk"), related to "bush" in English, which is the source of many words in French.
It became the word "bois" ("wood"), and also gave us the words "buisson" ("bush") and "bûche" ("log").
It also became "bouquet", which was then borrowed into English.
Occitan also derived the word "bosquet", meaning "copse, thicket, grove", which was borrowed into French.
And in 4:50 : in french we have also the word "Aurore" ^^
@@liath_ Yup, I don't know why I forgot to add it
Il y a aussi l'adjectif « silvestre » venant de silva. Il devait rechercher plus, lui
In Portuguese we also have "crepúsculo".
I was pretty sure isle came Latin isola..
what a resemblance between the Latin languages, beautiful.
Me encantó este video nos permite aprender que en nuestras lenguas latinas hay palabras muy similares.
Putem comunica între noi foarte bine chiar dacă limbile noastre sunt diferite, limba latina ne ajuta
Check this out: _Mă încântă acest video, ne permite să învățăm că în limbile noastre latine sunt palavre/cuvinte foarte similare._
In french : J'ai adoré cette vidéo qui nous permet d'apprendre que dans nos langues latines il y a des mots très similaires
Sono italiano...non ho bisogno della traduzione per capire quello che scrivete ❤😂
4:03 A curious thing is that in Portuguese "Espelunca" (or Spelunca in Latin) is also used in the connotative sense to indicate a disorganized/dirty/ugly place. For example: "Mas que espelunca esse lugar!" Which means "What a dirty, ugly, disorganized place".
Aliás, não tenho certeza se Espelunca é utilizado em Portugal também no dia-a-dia, se algum Português puder me responder, eu ficaria grato.
Espelunca é usado com frequëncia no Brasil e em Portugal também.
Speluca in Romanian language have same meaning.
"Gruta", is also a very common portuguese name for Cavern.
yes i also use
"Espelunca" also means "cave" in the dictionaries, but I've never seen someone use it as such thing.
French: Switch all A's with E's
Spanish: Add I's before every E
Portuguese: Add nasal sounds (H's) whenever possible
Italian: Remove all E's before S's, Add G's whenever appropriate.
Romanian: Either keep the original spelling or abandon the Latin word altogether (Sigma grindset).
Oui généralement les mots qui se terminent par...a en espagnol et en italien prennent...e à la fin en langue française.
Sou brasileiro e consigo entender o espanhol e o italiano!!Viva os povos latinos👏👏👏
Como chileno también. Un abrazo.
I'm an 🇮🇹 native speaker but I didn't know many of those fact. Really interesting.
Also fun fact! "Lapis" (stone in Latin) is commonly used in my vernacular dialect for (graphite) pencil.
me too
The word also evolved to Lápide (headstone) in Portuguese
Lapis/abise/lapise si usa in Toscana, Umbria e Tuscia. Chiaramente a causa delle nostre politiche linguistiche oscene stiamo perdendo tutto ciò...
@@riograndedosulball248 lapide is also used in Italian
Hey! I'm 🇧🇷🇮🇹 native speaker and here in Brazil we use "lápis" for "pencil" too. 👊🏻
(Catalan pronunciaton may not match its orthography)
In catalan:
1. Fluvius = Riu
2. Arbror = Arbre
-Silva = Bosc
3. Lacus = Llac
4. Natura = Natura
-Caelum = Cel
5. Collis = Turó
-Vallis = Vall
7. Mare = Mar
8. Caverna = Cova/ Caverna
9. Ocasus = Capvespre
-Aurora = Alba
10. Plagia = Platja
11. Petra = Pedra
12. Insula = illa
13. Desertum = Desert
14. Pratum = Prat
15. Fongus = Fong/ Xampinyó/ Bolet
16. Stella = Estel
17. Herba = Herba
18. Aqua = Aigua
19. Focus = Foc
20. Terra = Terra
Hi, I'm Romanian. My boyfriend studied Catalan at the University. He often said that Catalan was, oddly, the closest romance language to Romanian he has ever met. Here are some words you posted, but in Romanian (some of the spelling is special (includes special types of a and i)
1. Fluvius = Fluviu/ Rau (used to be written riu until 1989)
2. Arbror = Arbore
-Silva = Padure
3. Lacus = Lac
4. Natura = Natura
-Caelum = Cer
5. Collis = deal/ colina
-Vallis = Vale
7. Mare = Mare
8. Caverna = Pestera/ Caverna
10. Plagia = Plaja
11. Petra = Piatra
12. Insula = Insula
13. Desertum = Desert
15. Fongus = Fungi (more scientific) / Ciuperci
16. Stella = Stea
17. Herba = Iarba
18. Aqua = Apa
19. Focus = Foc
20. Terra = Pamant
Catalán is like the french dude in Spain
@@zamirroa No, pas! , jejeje
@@sergiantonisilvalerin1622 hehehe, amb hac
Catalan se parece mas al rumano que el castellano🤣
En occitan (southern France): 1) flume/fluvi 2) arbre 3) forèst/sèlva 4) lac 5) natura 6) cèl 7) montanha 8) puèch/colina 9) valada 10) mar 11) espeluga/tuta/cauna 12) calabrun/solelhcolc 13) aurora/albor 14) plaja 15) pèira 16) illa/iscla 17) desèrt 18) prat/pradariá 19) campairòl 20) estela 21) èrba 22) aiga 23) fuòc 24) tèrra
Some historians said that the galls and the dacians where able to talk eachother without a translator,readind your comment i know why,is very similar with the old romanian.
Os idiomas românicos são os mais bonitos e são muitos parecidos uns com os outros
Te entiendo perfectamente. Saludos.
as línguas latinas são tão fodas que nem precisa traduzir,embora alguns Dialetos mudem de idioma pra idioma,eu consigo entender um espanhol ou Italiano falando
Non ho bisogno della traduzione per capire 🎉❤
I can go in Portugal, Brazil and Spain saying “Lago” and people would understand me; that’s beautiful
Edit: love to all romance languages speakers 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇷🇴🇪🇸🇵🇹 from an italian guy
🇵🇹❤🇮🇹Itália
So that's the only thing you're planning to say?
@@believer431 Lago
And LatinAmerica
Mejor habla en italiano, italiano es mejor que el inglés.
As a Spanish speaker I find this so interesting! For example: Silva means forest but Silva is also a common surname
Very use in Portugal that name portuguese .
@@joaoteixeira7410 Sem
0:07 In Romanian the noun "râu" (which used to be spelled as "rîu" before the Academy did some shenanigans) is used to describe any body of running water bigger than a spring, as is the one we use on a daily basis. The noun "fluviu" is reserved for the biggest of rivers in the World: the Danube, the Volga, the Yangtze, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi-Missouri, etc. We also have cavernă în Romanian, meaning the same thing. Grotă is also a synonym, though it is seldom used as it is regarded as an argot term (although the word comes from Latin crypta). "Ieși din grotă!/Sal de la gruta!/Come out of the...crypt!" :) When we refer to the physical place we usually use the Slavic noun "peștera". That noun is considered "popular" while the others are from the...High Language, the Latin language, the language of the Lords, of the Emperors. That's the thing in Romanian language, its vocabulary contains words not just from Latin (and the other Romance languages like Italian and French) but also from South-Slavic languages, with a Thraco-Dacian substrate (that's why the language is called Daco-Romanian) and also borrowings from Magyar, Turkish and German.
Interesting in Spanish we have caverna and gruta, but also an iberic word cueva
By Dacian you mean origin not known, right? :)
@@Vercixx Origin not known by shills, trolls and Hungarian irredentists.
@@GholaTleilaxu give me an example of a Dacian word and explain why is it Dacian. But if you say it is Dacian because somebody said so I will ask you how that person knows it is Dacian.
@@Vercixx I´m not in the mood to play trolling games and pointless debates a la Steven Crowder "Prove me wrong!". There still are Dacian words in the Romanian vocabulary, and in the vocabulary of their neighbours, just like there are Celtic words and even older words, before the tribes had the names we now so easily use for them. It is known.
Romania 🇷🇴 is the most wonderful and amazing country in the world. Thank you very much
Lauda de sine nu miroase-a bine.
In Romanian, we have also the word “fluviu”, similar to french, which means: a larger river: for example: “Dunărea este un fluviu/râu” - “The Danube is a river”
In portuguese a river can be called "rio" regardless of its size. However we have words to smaller rivers like "regato, riacho, córrego, ribeiro, ribeirão".
Ce n'est pas une question de taille. Une rivière se jette dans un fleuve, un fleuve se jette dans la mer.
@@j-pierrrdelaitre5392 Oui et non. Il y a des rivieres de petite taille, longues de 20-30 km qui se jettent dans la mer, mais personne ne les appellera jamais des fleuves.
@@cspresimir ces petites rivières s'appellent des rus, mais vous avez peut-être raison, je ne suis pas spécialiste.
@@j-pierrrdelaitre5392 Rus? on apprend chaque jour qqch de nouveau ... :)
As a native Romanian speaker I noticed that you wrote the word "montan" (means mountain related) ,the actual word is "munte"(sg. form),munti(pl. form).Also the correct writing for desert is deșert.
I'm Native in Romanian and fluent in french and as well I speak a bit of Italian due to it's similarity with my native language .
This video was great 😁✌
Con tutti i latini noi saremo fratelli.🇨🇵🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇹🇹🇩
Creo que el italiano 🇮🇹 y el rumano 🇷🇴 son los más próximos al Latin. Saludos 🇪🇸
El rumano es el más alejado por que tiene muchá influencia eslava.
Purtroppo con l’influenza slava il rumeno ha perso tanto, due anni fa ho visto un documentario basato sulla lingua latina e le statistiche dicono che la lingua rumena è soltanto il 62%della lingua latina posizionandosi all’ultimo posto come neo-lingue-latine buon 2022 a tutti voi 😎
@@petterbardiel2183 no ,it doesn't have lots of slavic influence. For every word with slavic origins,we also have the Latin synonym of the same word.
@@Ge0rGi. e dupa cum vor sa vada.
@@domenicoattanasi7129 Più o meno, te lo dico da persona rumena: la grammatica e i vocaboli derivano molto dal latino e altre lingue neolatine, ma è la pronuncia che può allontanarsi. Mentre appare simile all'italiano, ha anche delle influenze slave, e caratteri speciali come 'â', 'ă', 'ț', 'ş'.
it is beautiful to share with many other people the roots of our languages !!
Asturian language:
River = Ríu
Tree = Árbol
Forest = Viesca
Lake = Llagu
Nature = Natura, naturaleza
Sky = Cielu
Mountain = Monte
Hill = Llomba
Valley = Valle
Sea = Mar
Cave = Cueva
Sunset = Atardecer, atapecer
Sunrise = Amanecer
Beach = Playa, sablera
Stone = Piedra
Island = Islla
Desert = Desiertu, ermu
Meadow = Prau, pradera
Mushroom = Seta, fungu
Star = Estrella
Herb = Yerba, herba
Water = Agua
Fire = Fueu
Earth = Tierra
Catalan:
River - riu
Tree - arbre
Forest - bosc
Lake - llac
Nature - natura, naturalesa
Sky - cel
Mountain - muntanya
Hill - puig, turó
Valley - vall
Sea - mar
Cave - cova
Sunset - ocàs
Sunrise - alba
Beach - platja
Stone - pedra
Island - illa
Desert - desert
Meadow - prat
Mushroom - bolet, fong
Star - estel
Herb - herba, brossa
Water - aigua
Fire - foc
Earth - terra
Riu is like in Romanian too Riu ( river) pariu ( creek)
Asturian is not a language, it is a jargon like Andalusian, Chilean or Dominican. Poorly spoken and written Spanish
Asturian is almost English then.. 🤷♀️
@@tenienteramires4428 HE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LATIN
"DEALATILVCIUSURSEI" has ben found on many temples around the mount LATIUM
The Celts also worshiped the phrase "DIELATI" whech was found on many Celtic-built structures on the British Isle
The Etymolgy:
DEALATILVCIUSURSEI
DEAL ATI LUS IU ....
DIAL ATI LUS IU...>DIEL ATI LUS JU..
I LUTEM ATIT DIELL...
Translated from albanian as "I PRAY TO FATHER SUN"
Same for the Celtic frase
DIELATI>DIEL ATI>DIELL.ATI
ATI DIELL
Translated from albanian as " FATHER SUN
After a certain time was a word which was used for many centries as one word, and its form was reformed phonetically like
DEALATI>DEA LATI/ Goodness LATI
es hermoso como los idiomas originaron de uno solo yo soy de Mexico y entiendo a casi la perfección el italiano y portugués gracias a su origen te quedo genial el video
C'est totalement incroyable de voir comme toutes les langues Venant d'une même langue étant le latin qui était parlée y'a plusieurs siècles, j'suis en Parleur espagnol et j'ai déjà commencé à étudier la langue française pendant 2 ans et je peux dire que cette truc c'est totalement facile de le faire puisque l'espagnol et le français étant 2 langues qui viennent du latin pour moi et pour beaucoup de personnes ça c'est totalement amusant et facile
L'inverse n'est pas facile, l'espagnol a des tournures de phrases parfois très difficiles à comprendre ou à apprendre
@@FrenchByzantium je pense pas que l'espagnol est difficile d'apprendre et beaucoup moins pour quelq'un qui parle français on est des frères qui sont de la même famille linguistique ça fait que beaucoup de mots et phrases ont une même structure ,ouiiii dans le passé nos langues ont choisis un chemin diferente et assez de nos expresiones et de voir le monde à été changé mais ça veux pas qu'on partage pas la même sang qui est le latin
@@juandavidchocuecastillo7277 oui c'est vrai on devrait plus apprendre nos langue respectives cela serait un atout nous avons un héritage civilisationnel en commun nous somme cousin " germain" de "germanus "du même germe en latin qui a donné hermanos en Espagnol amitié
@@juandavidchocuecastillo7277 le linguiste claude Hajaje disait justement qu'il était plus facile pour nous autres français d'apprendre les langue latine tandis que les pays du nord avait évidemment plus de facilité en anglais.
@@juandavidchocuecastillo7277 les Français sont de sang celte et germanique, pas latin (hormis dans l'extrême sud).
Espelunca in Portugal means a crappy house
Right!
Same in Romanian, spelunca.
0:07
And that's why we call someone who was born in RIo de Janeiro State a "fluminense".
I am a romanian born and I speak 4 romance languages: romanian, spanish, french and catalan and ofc i understand portuguese and italian
Comment et pourquoi avez-vous appris toutes ces langues !?
How bruh? Only the Malaysians are that fluent in 4 languages that and the Indonesians you are talented compa!
In portuguese, we use "Ocidente" as West, or as a synonym for the direction where the sun sets. Same deal with "Oriente" from _oriens_ . Aurora is also portuguese for the same word in latin.
In italiano Occidente e Oriente 😂
4:53 In Portuguese, "aurora" refers to the sunlight in sky before the sunrise (i.e., dawn). The time of day when a "aurora" happens that is called "alvorada". The sunrise properly is called "nascer do Sol" (sun birth, a Latin calque from "ordus solis").
Yes in french too but its not very used
Not sure if this was already mentioned in the comments, in Romanian, for cave, there's also the term "cavernă" similar to the other Romance languages. It also stands for a cavity in a tissue or a body part, or some sort of an opening to a void, although it's less used for this. 'Spelunca' from Latin is also used for cave in Romanian, but it's really rare, so rare that I haven't heard it yet used in a normal conversation. "Spelunca" also sounds very similar to "spelunca/ă" which means a very bad and cheap and dirty pub, mostly poor lit and in underground/basements, which may be where the connection to a cave lies (not sure though)"
pesteră, cavernă, grotă, ocnă, scorbură, speluncă.
Funny, i did a update language pack, from now i do not use "bodegă" anymore and i will use "spelunca"... sound more funny ;))
@@Daniel-iu7ob this reminds me of when my deskmate used to use as often as she could the word "şugubăț" because she loved how it sounded 😂
Very educative. I am a Persian native speaker. For a whole life, I used to hear all these words but did not know where they come from. Now I know they have Latin routes.
In Italian: spelonca is (rarely) used as a synonym of caverna or grotta; monte is widely used instead of montagna, especially when referred to a specific one; vallata (related to French “vallée”) is also used for valle; selva is archaic (right, Dante?) but comprehensible, the related adjective silvestre is more commonly found in names of animals or plants; Lido is also a common word for a beach, especially when it hosts a bathhouse. Finally, in Venice every small canal is called a rio.
Spelonca no Brasil se refere a um lugar pobre e horrível ! Um ligar sujo e sem condição de viver!
J'embrasse tout mes frères latin. Force à nous !
On parle des langues latines mais nous ne sommes en rien latins.
@@lemorholt6341 on parle de culture pas de l'ethnie et même ethniquement parlant on est plus proche des latins que des francs (gallo romain non?)
Salve! Em português é usada a palavra "Aurora". Porém sou brasileiro sendo assim não posso afirmar que em Portugal a palavra é usada atualmente pois apesar de compartilharmos a mesma lingua existem diferenças entre algumas pronúncias essas quais foram conservadas desde do colonialismo e outras não. Abraços!
Aqui em Portugal também se usa a palavra aurora amigo um abraço 🇵🇹🤝🇧🇷
salve, il existe aussi en france nous disons "aurore" pour l'Aube obrigado amigo da Portugal
Salve la palabra "aurore "e usada aqui em franca ,abrasos amigos
Aurora é usada sim em Portugal ,por exemplo
Aurora austral ,aurora boreal
Para mim alvorada é a palávra mais bonita.
In Portuguese there are several synonyms. In the case of SUNRISE, we can say AURORA, ALVORADA, NASCER DO SOL and even CREPÚSCULO (twilight in the sky between night and sunrise or between sunset and night). A curiosity: the first movie in "The Twilight Saga" movie series was called CREPÚSCULO in Brazil, while the last one was called AMANHECER ( also a synonym for SUNRISE).
Meds power! So proud of our common ancient culture! Greets and love from an Italian cousin 🥰🇮🇹
In Portuguese, "monte" for "mons, montis" is very common; also "aurora" for "aurora". "Espelunca" does exist but meaning any disorderly place not a cave.
Same as in Romanian, munte for "mountain", muntean/muntenesc for "from the mountains".
We say "monte" in Italian too (from the accusative of mons,-is, montem). "Spelonca" also is not unusual, it just means "cave" in Italian.
I think that in the video they put extremely basic words, there are many synonyms that are much more similar to Latin.
Thanks for the great content
You should add the genders for those words too, as those also relate to how similar Romance languages are in relation to Latin. For instance, even though the word for tree is similar in all romance languages, Portuguese was the only one that kept its original feminine gender (árvore), as the word for tree is also feminine in Latin (arbor).
I don't know about the other languages, but at least in Spanish there are a lot of feminine nouns that start with a strong "a" silable that have the masculine article. That is because in Latin the article illa started to mix with that vowel and remained the masculine part. (Illa acqua > el agua illas acquas > las aguas)
But I guess in this case it also ended up changing its gender, not only it's writing
Such worthy content . Cheers for reminding me of the connectedness of the words we speak. True balm in troubling times. Good use of time.
In Romanian we have the word "Silvic" for forest related activities. Like the Silvic Centers that tend to forests, for examples.
In portuguese we have an equivalent "Silvestre" which means something close to "wild" but not exactly ... wild = selvagem, which is pretty close too
@@zurika3724 In Spanish, "silvestre" = that grows without human intervention (hongos silvestres = wild mushrooms). Your "selvagem" is like our "salvaje" and is used for animals: lobo salvaje, instinto salvaje. In English, it's "feral".
Las lenguas más lindas son las romances ...
Sí
For those talking about Portuguese name "Silva", it was common to give name from the places you born, to identify the person in the IX till XV century. People that had came from other countries or didn't knew where they came from, the country gave them name "Silva". The ones that came from the forest and making them 1000% Portuguese :)
Cheers
isso é verdade, viva a língua portuguesa 🇵🇹🙌🏻
1:10 in french there's also bosquet
4:52 aurore
5:07 littoral
6:52 fonges
Also in portuguese
Aurora
Litoral
Fungo
In Spanish we also say Aurora (Dawm), lápida (tombstone), lapidario or lapidar (words derived from "lapis"). Also from "focus" comes "foco" (lamp, light bulb and also focal point).
I'm not even European or a Latino. I'm Indian. Yet it is not that hard for me to learn romance languages because of numerous similarities between Sanskrit (the base of most Indian languages) and Latin (the base of Romance languages, the loan words of which are included even in Germanic languages). Till now I have learnt basic Spanish and some Latin itself. I can understand written Portuguese.
Congratulations!
Explainable. Sanskrit is a sister of Latin, or rather of the mother of Latin
socares pirandelas ? tetrales bahtalo
The Indians who lives in Brazil speak Portuguese very well.
This is a very nice post! Very concise and informative too.
In sunrise, in Portuguese, it can also be said "nascer do sol" (it is commonly spoken more than the others). Also in Portuguese, "lapis" is a word and it means pencil.
Absolutely loved it!!
A lot of times you can recognize words directly from Latin to Italian if they end with um/us (mostly um) they changed in time with "o" so for example pavimentum (that means ground/floor) in Italian is Pavimento
Only two things:
In spanish you can use: Aurora/Alba/Amanecer.
In Romanian Mons its Munte!.
What an amazing video. Greetings from Brazil.
In Spanish for tombstone you can say “lápida” similar to the Portuguese word. Also for sunset you can say “puesta del sol”
In romanin we also have lespede as tombstone and lapidare (verb) for killing. so also death related words
In Portuguese the word for pencil is also the same: lápis. And we have the word lapidar (to lapidate), and some other related words.
Native romanian speaker here: “Fluviu” is the word for a big river, like Danube. “Râu” is used for medium and small rivers. So very close to the latin version. Also in the romanian language we have the words : Cavernă, Speluncă which are synonymous with Peșteră (cave). So a lot of latin words are kept, but you can clearly see the slavic influence
In French we also have the word "bosquet" which means "grove"
¿entonces es "arboleda" en espagnol?
algo así
In Portuguese "arvoredo" or "mata".
in catalan "bosquet" would mean litte forest.
Very interesting.
In romanian boschet , means a bush, arbusto^ or it can mean a bad guy
The word "Crépuscule" is also used in French to designate the sunset and "Aurore" to the sunrise.
For the last word, we also use the term "Foyer" to designate a fireplace. And as for the Spanish, it can also mean home.
In portuguese: Crepúsculo / Aurora
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Ce n'est pas tout à fait vrai : l'aube est la lumière qui apparaît avant le lever du soleil, l'aurore la lumière qui apparaît au début du lever du soleil. Le crépuscule désigne la lumière qui apparaît encore après le coucher du soleil.
The word "Loch" is not borrowed from Latin. It comes from Old Irish "Loch" from Primitive Irish "*ᚂᚑᚉᚒ" (*loxu), and if it had been borrowed from Latin it would have been "Lach" or "Lac". Both Latin and Irish words are from PIE "*lókus".
In French we can find the adjective "Sylvestre" (which is a also a name) for the definition of something forest-related
Les recuerdo que el idioma inglés tiene casi 40% de base latina y el Imperio Romano ocupo Inglaterra por ciento de años, fundó Londres con el nombre de Londinium e hizo una muralla para separarla de Escocia, saludos
Base francesa para ser más exactos
Pero eso es irrelevante las palabras frencesas del inglés tiene usualmente una variante germanica y la mayoría de palabras usadas de día a día son germanicas no latinas
Nice video.
In Portuguese, the latin word "silva" remained by erudite way the name of the blackberry plant.
For Mountain, we also have the word "monte", that is closest to its root word of "mons".
For "sunrise", we also use "aurora".
For the sunset we have another word for « coucher de soleil » (but this one is less used) in french : you can say « crépuscule » or « soir ». 😉
I wonder why you chose not to show the etymology of many of the Romanian words in the video?
Many of them are derived from an interesting Latin etymology different from other Romance languages.
When I learned some Romanian I realized some of the words despite looking strange are still Latin based like:
Barbat: Comes from the Latin word for beard (Barabatum)
Enima: Comes from the Latin word for soul (Anima)
Usturoi: Comes from the Latin word to singe (Ustulo)
I know other Romance languages do the same thing, but I feel like Romanian maybe does it more 😉.
@@CobraKaiNoMercy Many romanian words are wrongly presented with alien roots, beeing dacian words. In fact , latin and romanian are more related than latin and other romance languages except italian as direct descendant. Base / ancient / root latin , Aenea's language in fact is a thracian dialect, as Troy was a thracian city. In northen penninsula at that time, etruscans and other population there were close related with illiro-thracians from Dalmatian and Albanian Coast. If you will check ancient writings, you will find that the only people with which romans never used translators in diplomacy were dacians. And so on. Official "historiography" usually omit ancient links between Rome and Dacia , as many "paradigms" would shatter....
@@augustiniumihaila4466 completely untrue. Dacian is an extinct language. It is estimated that only 2% of Romanian consists of Dacian words. Moreover, Troy has nothing to do with Rome or Thracian let alone Romania. Please stop the dacopathic nonsense.
@@UlpianHeritor you are wrong. Stop your forged propaganda. Try to learn real history.
@@augustiniumihaila4466 says the dacopath spreading actual lies and propaganda. The irony is unreal.
Very cool! It's important to note that daily words in spanish as river (río) are quite different from latin, but more specific ones are very similar. Ej. Fluvial: related to the rivers
Same in portuguese ex:tráfego fluvial.
Great video for my kids.
We're in the US, but they speak some French and Romanian (native languages for us, parents) and they study Spanish in school.
One of them is learning Italian for our next trip to Rome.
I really love how the word for desert can be traced back to ancient Egypt! 🤩
Muito interessante o estudo das línguas né,Focus é fogo em Latin,aí me remete a tudo o que a gente tem que buscar a fazer,temos que ter Focus,fogo,foco....ter a chama dentro de si
Nice video. There's some pretty big romance languages missing from the video, though, like catalan, sardinian, occitan etc...
Some remarks on romanian. Natură, grotă, forestier, montan, colină, plajă, insulă, fungus, terra seem to be late borrowings. E.g. the inherited word for "terra" is "țară"
Aurora also exists in Portuguese. And it's very much used.
Spelunca, Portuguese espelunca, at least in Brasil, it's nowadays used to refer to an ugly or poor or bad dwelling or workplace.
For example, you get angry with a restaurant for the bad service, you say you tell the manager you will never return to that ESPELUNCA
En France nous disont l'aurore, et c'est aussi un prénom donner aux fille.
Romanians are Roman-Daci. Amazing nation, sexy language.
Proud to be a Romanian citizen.
For river, în romanian we also use "fluviu", but only for the big ones, like Volga or Danube
Interesting that Spanish has the word "hogar" from cooking fire in the middle of the house. In Romanian we have the word "hota" which is an exhaust hood that is placed above the oven to collect smoke into the chimney.
Romanian also has the word "fluviu" which means "big river" like the Mississippi, Nile, Rhine or Danube.
And mountain is "munte". "Montan" is a lesser used synonym.
In Spain we have a word called "fluvial" that is used as an adjective to rivers, referring to the fact that the river water flows, we also have another word to say mountain in addition to "Montaña", which would be "Monte", and we also have a word to refer to a group of mountains, which would be "Cordillera".
@@condedooku9750 Interesting. We also have the word "fluvial" used as an adjective. But the adjective was borrowed from French "fluvial", while the noun "fluviu" was inherited from Latin. Romanian is weird that way.
"Cordillera" in Spanish seems to be like a "chord" of mountains? "coarda de munti". Romanian has the word "cordelina" which is a type of mountain climbing rope. Lol, it's crazy how much languages change but also cool to see the similarities and where they might have come from long ago.
@@daciaromana2396 I agree, it is surprising to see the similarities of the Latin languages, Romania also fascinates me because you have a very curious mix between Latin languages and Slavic languages :)
@@condedooku9750 Well I wouldn't characterize Romanian as a mix of Slavic and Latin. It is a Latin language with some incidental Slavic borrowings. But I'd say that the Slavic influence in Romanian is probably more important than foreign influence in other Romance languages.
@@daciaromana2396 Well you are right, I was referring to the fact that the influence of Slava languages is considerable in Romania and that catches my attention.